Washing-machine



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W. J. SAGE.

WASHING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM JAMES SAGE, OF OONNELLSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION ferning pea ef Lettere Patent 110,436,089,deteaseptembef 9,1890.

Application filed March 26, 1890. Serial No. 34IBA55. (Model.) v

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM JAMES SAGE,a citizen of the United States, residing at Con nellsville, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following is a speciiication. Y

This invention has relation to washing-machines; and the objects in view are to provide a machine and means for constantly circulating the water through the suds-boX in a positive manner, so as to loosen the dirt from the clothing, whereby the same maybe separated by the agitator.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a washing-machine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the pump.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 represents the oblong suds-boX, supported at its four corners by the usual supportinglegs 2. The interior of the suds-box is divided into two compartments by means of a transverse partition 3, one of the compartments being square, and by suitable cornerbrackets 4 and depending strips 5 formed into a clothes-receiving cage, the bottom 6 of which is arranged above the bottom of the suds-box and perforated throughout its entire surface, whereby communication is established between the cage and that portion of the suds-boX under the same. The remaining chamber or compartment is occupied by a combined force and lift pump 7,which pump is removably inserted into the compartment and has its bottom slightly elevated above the bottom of the suds-box. The pump comprises three chambers, designated as the sucker-chamber 8, the discharge-chamber 9, and the secondary chamber 10. The secondary chamber 10 is arranged at one side of the main or sucker chamber, and the discharge-chamber 9 directly in front of the sucker-chamber, and has its front wall formed by the partition 3. The dividing-wall loetween the chambers 8 and 9 is provided at its lower end with a port 11, affording communication between said chambers, and at its upper end terminates short of the upper end of the pump-stock 7, so that when covered bya pump-cap 12 it forms an upper port 13. The upperend of Ythe chamber 9 is covered by an upwardly-opening valve 14. The upper end of the partition between the cham- 6o bers 9 and 10 is also cut away to form aport 15, affording upper communication between said chambers. e The chamber Sis provided at its bottom with an upwardly-opening valve 16, and in a similar manner is the chamberlO provided with a valve 17. The upper edge of the partition 3 is cutaway, as at 18*,which cut-away portion registers with the upper end ofthe discharge-chamber 9 and the port 13 between 7o e the same and the'chamber 8.

The pump-cap 12 is provided with a circular opening 18, in which there is mounted for reciprocation the vertically-reciprocating pump-rod 19.

2O represents a central strip mounted over the clothes-eage,'and at each side of the same thereare hinged, as at 21, covers 22, which, by ordinary turn-buttons 23, may be secured in position over the cage.A The strip 2O is pro- 8o vided with abearing-bridge 24, between which and the strip there is j onrnaled the agitatorshaft 25, carrying at its lower end, which depends into the cage, an ordinary agitator. Above the strip the shafthas rigidlymounted thereon a small pinion 25*, and the bridge is extended to one side to form a keeper or guide 26.

At the opposite end of the machine there is mounted a pair of vertical standards 27, the 9o upper ends of which are provided with a bearing-pin 28, upon which is mounted a rock -Y ing lever 29. Depending from the lever 29 is a rock-arm 30, which is loosely hinged, as at 31, to a rack-bar 32, mounted for reciprocation in the guide 26 of the bridge 24 and maintained by said guide in mesh with the small' pinion'25. The end of the lever 29 is connected pivotally with the pump-rod 19 by a pivoted arm 33, as shown.

The cage having been provided with clothes to be washed, the box is partially iilled with water and the operating-lever 29 vertically oscillated. As the lever is oscillated, it will IOO be apparent that the rock-arm 30 will reciprocate the rack-bar 32, and it in turn will impart motion to the agitator-shaft and the agitator, which operates in conjunction With the triangular-shaped ribs 5 to eradicate the dirt from the clothing.

In order to maintain aproper circulation of Waterthrough the clothing as they are manipulated and their various surfaces or portions are presented uppermost, the pump has been provided.

The operation of the pump is as follows: As the plunger ascends, water is drawn in from the bottom of the ends-box through th-e upwardly-opening valve 16 into the main or suction chamber, and when descending said Water is forced from said chamber tl'irough the port 11 into the discharge-chamber 9, in .A

which it rises, and the valve 14. being forced open the Water passes through the port 18 in A the partition 3 into the cage, from which it is redrawn by a subsequent upward movement of the pump-rod. As the pump-rod descends,

a vacuum is formed in the chamber 10, so that Water is drawn through the valve 13 and said chamber filled, after which the Water passes from'said chamber through the port 15, over the top of the piston or sucker in the chambe'r 8, to' be discharged by the elevating or said 'sucker over the to'p of the valve 14 and through the port 18. It will thus be apparent that the pump is double acting or combined force and lift, so that a perpetual positive circulation of Water takes place through the cage thrown into contact with various portions of the clothing, serving to loosen the'dirt, which dirt is subsequently separated from the clothing by the agitator.

From the above description it Will be ap'- parent that I have provided a washing-machine of a simple and cheap construction and means for positively and continuously directing through the same a current of Water.

Having described my i11vention,whatI claim isl. In a Washingmachine, the combination,

with a suds-box divided to form separate chambers communicating at their lower ends, of a clothes-cage mounted in one of the chambers, a pump mounted in the other chamber and adapted to discharge Water from its upper end into the cage, a cover mounted on the box, an agitator mounted in the cover and depending into the cage and provided atits upper end with a pinion, a rack-bar for operating the pinion, a lever for operating the rackbar, and a pump-rod having a sucker mounted in the pump and connected to said lever, substantially as specified.

2. In a Washing-machine, the combination, with the suds-box subdivided and provided in one of its compartments with a clothescage and an agitator, of a combined force and lift pump mounted in the opposite compartment, communicating at its bottom with the main chamber and at its upper end with the cage, a pump-rod and sucker mountedin the pump, and mechanism for simultaneously operating the agitator-shaft and pump-rod, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, vith the suds-box havin g the opposite uprights, the clothes-cage,and pump mounted in the box and communicating with each other at their upper and lower ends, of the agitator-shaft depending in the clothescage and having a pinion and `journaled in a bridge having a guide, a rack-.bar mounted in the guide for operating the pinion, a pump-rod for operating the pump, a lever pivoted in the upper ends of the uprights and having the depending rock-arm hinged to the rack-bar, and a pivoted lever connected at its ends to the pump-rod and the end of the operating-lever, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto ailxed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM JAMES SAGE.

Witnesses:

JosIAH KURTZ, JOHN KURTZ. 

